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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks even while allowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to come to America and fill his military market basket. "I think I can prove," mused Nixon a while back, "that the arms Americans have sold have rarely been used in aggression, while those of the Russians and other nations have been used repeatedly. Are we to ignore requests from our friends in this kind of world...
...breakdown of the family structure, the lowering of moral standards, the appeal of easygoing secular lifestyles. At the same time, Muslims are demanding the best of the West: schools, hospitals, technology, agricultural and water development techniques. Harvesting the fruits of modernization without absorbing some of its side-effects may prove to be impossible. But Sheik Mahmoud Abu Obayed of Cairo's Al Azhar University says Muslims should strive for industrialization with "careful selectivity. We must choose what is suitable for us and reject what is harmful." Anwar Ibrahim, head of Malaysia's Islamic Youth Movement, puts it another way: "Does...
...always so: in 1966 a Gallup poll showed more people against the death penalty than for it. But high crime has helped change many minds. By September 1978 a Gallup poll estimated that 62% favored the death penalty, only 27% opposed it. No one has been able to prove conclusively that the death penalty deters murders, but the feeling persists that some crimes are so awful that the criminal deserves to be executed. Whether people will still feel that way once condemned men actually start to die again is open to question...
...legal problems facing portfolio managers who buy and sell on political rather than financial grounds. Said he: "Total divestment would almost certainly cause the university to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits, and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...
...Kennedy School did not review ARCO's legal record or consider the possibility that future crimes by the company could bring Harvard disrepute. This may prove a serious oversight. Through the years, ARCO has been accused many times of willful violations of the law (see inset for charges and civil settlements). Still more significant for a Public Affairs Forum is the political thrust of much of ARCO's activity...